Grok Is Pushing AI ‘Undressing’ Mainstream
Elon Musk hasn’t stopped Grok, the chatbot developed by his artificial intelligence company xAI, from generating sexualized images of women. After reports emerged last week…
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8 WhatsApp Features to Boost Your Security and Privacy
WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps in the world, with over 3 billion users. But its ubiquity also makes it a target…
How to Protect Your iPhone or Android Device From Spyware
Infection usually starts through malicious links and fake apps, but it is also taking place via “more subtle methods,” says Richard LaTulip, a field CISO…
How Protesters Became Content for the Cops
In 2025, protest policing in major US cities increasingly took on the character of a spectacle: overwhelming deployments, theatrical staging, and aggressive crowd-control tactics that…
Fears Mount That US Federal Cybersecurity Is Stagnating—or Worse
This fall’s weekslong government shutdown only added to concerns about the state of federal cybersecurity—creating the possibility of blind spots or gaps in monitoring while…
Discovering the Dimensions of a New Cold War
In 2025, American and world leaders were preoccupied with wars in the Middle East. Most dramatically, first Israel and the United States bombed Iran’s nuclear…
The Worst Hacks of 2025
It was a strange year in cyberspace, as US president Donald Trump and his administration launched foreign policy initiatives and massive changes to the federal…
The New Surveillance State Is You
Privacy isn’t dead. Just ask Kristi Noem. The Department of Homeland Security secretary has spent 2025 trying to convince the American public that identifying roving…
The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2025
In 2025, people who built their careers by being some form of Very Online are now some of the most powerful people in the world.…
The US Must Stop Underestimating Drone Warfare
In 2026, we won’t see terrorism incidents similar to 9/11, when hijacked airplanes struck the World Trade Center, or the Oklahoma City bombing, when ammonium…
The Age of the All-Access AI Agent Is Here
For years, the cost of using “free” services from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and other Big Tech firms has been handing over your data. Uploading your…
NYPD Sued Over Possible Records Collected Through Muslim Spying Program
A New Jersey man who previously sued the New York City Police Department in an unsuccessful quest to find out whether the NYPD’s Intelligence Division…